Lesson 7: Artistic Skills

and Techniques to
Contemporary Art
Creations
 COLLAGE
 Collage are the techniques of an art production primarily used in
the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of
different forms, thus creating a new whole.
 picture with pieces stuck on surface: a picture made by sticking
cloth, pieces of paper, photographs, and other objects onto a
surface.
 Collage may sometimes include magazines and newspaper
clippings, ribbons, paints, bits of colored or handmade papers,
portions of other artwork or texts, photographs, and other found
objects glued to a piece of paper or canvas.
 COLLAGE
 Collage can be used to emphasize two aspects of picture making:
the purely formal and the illustrative. In the purely formal approach
artistic values dominate, and the placement of the parts,
overlapping, contours, shapes, intervals, and colors are of primary
concern. In the illustrative approach, imagery and content take
precedence. The photomontage provides a good example. The
content—for instance, photographic images from magazines or
books—is chosen for its associations and then opened to fresh
interpretation through its new setting and through juxtapositions
likely to be incongruous.
Juan Gris: Breakfast
Spanish-born French
artist Juan Gris’s innovative
use of collage in the first
decades of the 20th century
influenced the development
of synthetic cubism, which
involved constructing
paintings and drawings from
shapes cut out of paper.
Breakfast is in the collection
of the Musée National d’Art
Moderne, Paris, France.
Georges Braque: Guitare et
verre

French artist Georges Braque

painted Guitare et verre (Guitar and
Glass, 1921) to have the look of a
collage. Flat areas in the painting—
painted to resemble different
materials such as paper, marble, and
wood—appear to have been cut out,
layered, and assembled on the
painting’s surface, as if in a collage.
Braque worked in conjunction with
Spanish artist Pablo Picasso to
develop the early 20th-century art
movement known as cubism and the
technique of collage.
 DECOLLAGE
 Decollage is the opposite of collage; instead of an image being built up
all or parts of existing images, it is created by cutting, treating away or
otherwise removing pieces of an original image. The French word
“Decollage” in English means “Take-off” or “To be come Unglued” or “To
become unstuck”.
 Examples of Decollage include entresissements and cut – up technique.
Similar technique is the lacerated poster, a poster in which one has been
placed over another or others, and the top poster or posters have been
ripped, revealing to a greater or lesser degree the poster or posters
underneath.
 GRAFFITI
 Graffiti are writings or drawings that have been scribbled,
scratched, or painted illicitly on a wall or other surface, often in a
public space. Graffiti range from simple written words to elaborate
wall paintings.
 Graffiti may express underlying social and political messages, and
a whole genres of artistic expression is based spray paint graffiti
styles
 An example of this is the Singapore art bridge beside the Oxford
hotel where the writer stayed in their visit to Singapore. It is said to
be painted by a Batanes-born artist.
 LAND-ART
 Artworks or earth arts is an art movement in which landscape and the work
of art are inextricably linked. It is also an art form that is created in nature,
using natural materials such as soil, rock (bed rock, boulders, stones),
organic media (logs, branches, leaves), and water which introduced
materials such as concrete, metal, asphalt, or mineral pigments.
 Sculpture is not placed in the landscape rather, the landscape is the
means of their creation. Often earth moving equipment is involved. The
works frequently exists in the open; located well away from civilization, left
to change and erode under natural conditions.
 DIGITAL ARTS
 Is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as an essential
part of the creative or presentation process.
 Digital art is placed under the larger umbrella term new media art.
 After some resistance, the impact of digital technology has transformed
activities such as paintings, drawings, sculpture, and music/ sound art,
while new form such as net art. Digital installation art, and virtual reality
have become recognized artistic practices. More generally the term
digital artists is used to describe an artist who make use of digital
technologies in the production of art.
 DIGITAL ARTS
 “Digital Art”, is a term applied to contemporary art that uses
the method of mass production.
 The techniques of digital art used extensively by the
mainstream media in advertisements and by film-makers to
produce visual effects. Both digital and traditional artists use
many sources of electronic information and programs to
create their work.
 MIXED-MEDIA
 In visual art, it refers to artwork in the making of which more than one medium
has been employed. It refers to a work of visual art that combines various
traditionally distinct visual art media. For example, work on canvas that
combines paint, ink, and collage.
 When creating a painted or photographed work using mixed media, it is
important to choose the layers and allow enough dying times between the
layers to ensure the final work will have structural integrity. If many different
media are used, it is equally important to choose a sturdy foundation upon
which the different layers are imposed.
 Many effects can be achieved by using mixed media. Found objects can be
used in conjunction with the traditional artists to attain a wide range of self-
expression.
 PRINTMAKING
 Printmaking is the process of making artworks by painting, normally in
the paper. Prints are created by transforming ink from a matrix or
through a prepared screen to a sheet of paper or other material.
Common types of matrices include; metal plates, usually copper or zinc,
or polymer plates for engraving or etching; stone aluminum or polymer
for lithography; blocks of wood for wood crafts and wood engravings;
and linoleum for linocuts. Screens made of silk or synthetic fabrics are
used for the screen painting process